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Sweet-Holiday I matured because I had to. My parents did nothing to help my stuttering and treated me badly after I began to shutter at the age of 4-5. I believed they valued me so little that they al...

Honestly, I don't know if stuttering causes us to mature earlier; maturity goes hand in hand with each individual's mindset. While there are people like yourself who developed early maturity due to th...

Sweet-Holiday, You might be a teenager but you seem wise beyond your age. Do you think our stuttering has caused us to mature faster? I believe, really, what challenges us makes us stronger. Living wi...

Well done to your son! I’m so happy for the little man! There are plenty of talented singers/performers who stutter and never let it deter them and I’m sure he can join them on that list of top talent...

Hey, I'm really sorry to hear that you've been through such challenging experiences growing up. It's understandable that your family background and the absence of strong connections with your sibling...

I recently read a long biography of King George VI. Thought I'd share a couple pages. He'd been working on speech therapy for over a decade before becoming king. Still, look what he was faced with: pe...

> I was thinking about creating a post about stuttering and fluency, with a title like 'Stuttering and Fluency: Two Sides of the Same Coin.' I'll see if I publish something later. Thank you so muc...

Last year was my first year of college. To be honest, it was pretty rough. For the first 3/4 of the year or so, basically my only social interaction was playing club poker, which was nice but it didn'...

College is different.. People would not care about your stutter or in some instances they might be considerate but people are mostly mature at that stage. So just focus on your studies and enjoy you...

I agree with you that we appoint a value to a feared word. As you already pointed out, a value of fear or distrust that we won't say it correctly or can't say and might get stuck. So one could say tha...

One thing about stuttering that we must all Acknowledge is that it creates trauma that we have to spend a lifetime undoing....

Not if your open to it. I’ve found that the only reason making friends gets harder as you get older is because people close themselves off to new ideas and experiences. Just don’t let your stutter d...

Yeah, it can be a state of mind because when I stutter I feel bad and when I have periods of fluency I feel good with myself and have a clear mind. It's like action and reaction. Probably it's a su...

I read another of your post. You seem like a good kid. Regardless of your stutter, public speaking is a skill people can learn. Some people suck others are amazing. If you can practice your public spe...

One good strategy is to *look forward* to the call. If you see it as something enjoyable that you can navigate around, it becomes easier....

Two weeks down. It kind of works. It gave me more confidence. Relaxed me while speaking. I’m going to continue it… :)...

So ive done this to myself. You literally get into your own head and make it worse. I've always been able to read, speak, sing, when I'm alone but when I really thought about it especially practicing ...

This is my attempt to provide ideas on stuttering for your research (thesis): According to [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/14xt1ft/tips_to_improve_stuttering_from_the_research/) rese...

I read this book and it completely shifted my perspective on confidence and stutter

I read this book and it completely shifted my perspective on confidence and stutter One of my good friends, Ryan Cowley, wrote a book on his lived experience as a person who stutters and how he gained...

If this sub didn’t hide all the post that mention him, you could see actual first hand accounts of real people. I messaged a guy probably over a year ago after seeing him post a negative stuttering st...